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Re: Chords in LilyPond
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Kieren MacMillan |
Subject: |
Re: Chords in LilyPond |
Date: |
Mon, 29 May 2017 14:02:08 -0400 |
Hi Carl,
> I had not heard of quartic chords before reading this email (as I've
> mentioned before, I'm a music novice). It was very interesting for me to
> study quartic chords.
They form a large part of my harmonic (composition and arranging) language.
> But in my web search and following links, I never found anything that
> approached a notation for quartic chords. Their existence was discussed,
> but I found no quartic-based notation; it was all just the notes.
There definitely isn’t a standard… =\
> Do you have any source information that we could use to better understand
> quartic chord notation?
Not really. In the musical theatre world, the symbol
C4
is starting to be widely understood as <c f c> (with a C in the bass and no 5th
in the chord), as distinct from
Csus4
which is <c f g c>; this parallels the use of C2 / Cadd2 / Csus2 as three
different chords/voicings; but it’s also sometimes just written as
F5/C
In the classical world, I’ve seen attempts to make (e.g.)
CQ4
a standard way to notate
<c f bf>
but I’ve never seen a real codified “system”.
Sorry I don’t have more concrete info for you. I would just love it if whatever
chord name system(s) we build for Lilypond are flexible and forward-proof
enough to support a quartal naming convention (as just one example), if one
ever gets established.
Thanks,
Kieren.
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